Head of HR, Innovative Medicine China

Posted:
1/26/2026, 6:49:08 PM

Location(s):
Beijing, China

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
People & HR

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:

Human Resources

Job Sub Function:

HR Business Partners

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Beijing, China

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Human Resources Leader, Innovative Medicine based in Beijing. Caring for the world, one person at a time has inspired and united the people of Johnson & Johnson for over 130 years. We embrace research and science -- bringing innovative ideas, products and services to advance the health and well-being of people. At Johnson & Johnson, we believe good health is the foundation of vibrant lives, thriving communities and forward progress. That’s why for more than 130 years, we have aimed to keep people well at every age and every stage of life. Today, as the world’s largest and most broadly-based healthcare company, we are committed to using our reach and size for good. We strive to improve access and affordability, create healthier communities, and put a healthy mind, body and environment within reach of everyone, everywhere. Every day, our more than 130,000 employees across the world are blending heart, science, and ingenuity to profoundly change the trajectory of health for humanity. Thriving on a diverse company culture, celebrating the uniqueness of our employees, and committed to inclusion. Proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

The HR Leader is responsible for the creation and deployment of the portfolio of HR work within the geography in support of sector/function goals. The HR Leader will actively support their business partners and drive important people/talent actions for their respective business.

Key Responsibilities:

Ensuring business intimacy:

  • Create and deploy the HR agenda for the business within China, aligned with HR, business, and shared services strategies
  • Ensure integration of HR priorities into business plans
  • Evaluate appropriate business, financial, or other drivers across groups to inform HR solutions (e.g., assess effectiveness, identify gaps)
  • Lead strategic HR work for the sector in a country/cluster in support of business goals, enterprise goals, and sector HR strategies
  • Develop trusted partnership/coaching relationship with leaders/teams that enhances their impact
  • Work across geographical clusters to realise the business potential of each market.

Driving talent agenda and building organizational capability:

  • Identify talent needs of the business via analytics, business acumen, and effective analysis
  • Develop/deploy talent strategies in partnership with local leadership to grow and advance effective, diverse talent pools and drive meaningful talent planning; build on global and region-sector strategies to implement within country/cluster
  • Support country/cluster business leaders for the sector/function to drive talent agenda and achieve business results
  • Partner with global-sector, region-sector, and country/cluster HR leaders to shape culture, employee engagement, talent agendas, and change initiatives as appropriate

Promoting collaboration:

  • Partner x-group, including across all parts of the HR model, to ensure integrated solutions and seamless experiences for both HR and the business
  • Collaborate x-sector/function on initiatives/goals that apply across the country/cluster
  • Proactively identify opportunities to partner x-group and or x-sector to ensure integration of efforts

Leading others:

  • Ensure effective performance of team
  • Ensure meaningful engagement, development, and energy of team
  • Drive culture of Credo, growth, collaboration, and inclusion within team

Qualifications:

  • This position will be located in Beijing and require up to 25% travel.
  • Years of experience
    • 15+ years’ professional experience preferred; minimum of 10 years of progressive HR experience preferred, covering China and domains with a balance/mixture of specialist and generalist experience; minimum of 5 years people leadership experience is required
  • People management experience preferred
  • Chinese language fluency preferred
  • HR competencies
    • Strategy leader: Create, shape, and apply meaningful strategies that meet long- and short-term goals
    • Talent mindset: develop high performing, diverse, sustainable talent pools; expertise in talent management
    • Business mindset: integrate internal and external business drivers and financial insights to drive talent outcomes for the business
    • Trusted partner: effectively coach, influence, and advise
    • Integrator: look across groups and needs to identify/build end-to-end, holistic solutions; role model enterprise mindset
    • Change advocate: drive strategic change to proactively meet evolving business needs and explore new business models
    • Operational excellence: Continuously drive enhanced effectiveness and efficiency of HR solutions
    • Analytics mindset: identify and use data to inform decision making
    • Digital champion: identify, use, and role model the use of technology to meet needs

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Business Alignment, Coaching, Developing Others, Employee Retention, HR Business Partnership, HR Strategic Management, Human Resources Consulting, Human Resources Law, Inclusive Leadership, Interpersonal Influence, Leadership, Leading Change, Organizational Change Management, Problem Solving, Tactical Planning, Talent Management